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THE FORUM DAILY

A federal judge on Wednesday ordered
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the Biden administration to vacate a policy that has allowed officials
to process arriving migrants more quickly, "potentially straining
already stretched holding facilities," report Elliot Spagat and David
Fischer of the Associated Press
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Absent a government appeal, the decision will take effect in a week. 

"Should it take effect, this decision would mean greater health and
safety risks for detained migrants and greater pressure on our agents at
the border," Jennie said in our press statement
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"Congress' failure to act on border and immigration reforms is making
it harder and harder for better policies to take hold." 

Also yesterday - busy news day - we published new polling
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Three takeaways to start: Strong majorities support offering refuge to
people who have fled torture and persecution. Similar percentages value
welcoming newcomers to our communities. And Americans still
(overwhelmingly) want border and immigration reforms. (Click through
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to see in which group support exceeds opposition by 70 percentage
points.)  

Welcome to Thursday's edition of The Forum Daily. I'm Dan Gordon,
the Forum's strategic communications VP, and the great Forum Daily
team also includes Dynahlee Padilla-Vasquez, Clara Villatoro and Katie
Lutz. If you have a story to share from your own community, please send
it to me at [email protected]
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**LEGAL PATHWAYS** - Senior living providers and advocates could urge
lawmakers to expand existing immigration pathways to help address
workforce shortages, Kimberly Bonvissuto reports in McKnight's Senior
Living
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Carl Risch, an attorney and former assistant secretary of state for
consular affairs, said Monday that partnerships could help smooth the
way for recent arrivals who have work authorization, and more
opportunities for sponsorship also could help. Separately, Arielle
Dreher of Axios
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has more on last month's National Bureau of Economic Research findings
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help address worker shortages in nursing-home care.  

**PROTECT OUR ALLIES** - On Wednesday, veterans of the war in
Afghanistan pleaded with Congress to account for failures of the U.S.
government's withdrawal, evacuate allies still stuck in Afghanistan
and offer permanence to those who have already resettled here, reports
Dan Lamothe of The Washington Post
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The Afghan Adjustment Act would help. Meanwhile, Mexican asylum
authorities are noticing more Afghans seeking asylum there or trying to
reach the U.S., Rosa Flores reports for CNN
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**CHILDREN'S PROTECTIONS **- Utah Sen. Mike Lee and other
Republicans reintroduced a bill
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Wednesday that would limit protections for migrants, including children,
in detention, report Brigham Tomco and Suzanne Bates of the Deseret News
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As Jennie said, "This legislation would allow immigration authorities to
hold migrant families with children in detention for longer than 20
days, despite a scientific consensus that detaining children can be
harmful to their well-being."   

**MIGRATION STORIES** - In the past decade, more than 7 million people
have left Venezuela "amid a political, economic and humanitarian crisis
that has lasted the entirety of President Nicolás Maduro's
government," reports Regina Garcia Cano in a powerful feature for the
Associated Press
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"As people continue to migrate, mostly to elsewhere in Latin America,
there's an increasing divide between 'los que se quedaron' and
'los que se fueron,' those who stayed and those who left," Cano
writes. Don't miss the amazing photos.

Thanks for reading, 

Dan 

 

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